Third Coast Audio Library
Our vast and ever-growing collection contains thousands of carefully curated audio stories, episodes from Third Coast podcasts, educational sessions on craft from the best makers on the planet, and more.
We’ve also featured some incredible audio work beyond this audio library, in other ways and using other formats: don’t miss the 2021 Web Showcase, featuring a more in-depth look at the winners, judges and even a list of 40 finalists from the 2021 Third Coast/RHDF Competition.
Past the Brown Rice on Aisle 6
While at my nearby Key Foods gathering ambient sound, I happened upon this neighbor family drama set to the grocery store's soundtrack.
- 2012
- 02:00
- Audrey Quinn
We Do Know There's a Red Shelf in Their Living Room
How little we know of the people who share our roof.
- 2012
- 02:22
- Alison Broverman
Purple Purpose
FNSS (Friendly Neighborhood Surveillance System) delivers a report to Charles on Mrs. Smotherson, Mr. Eggerly, and Bruce & Denny.
- 2012
- 02:21
- Zachary Baiel
All Grown Up Blues
A portrait of a mother and daughter, born forty years apart.
- 2012
- 02:52
- Yarn AudioWorks
Loving Charcoal
A portrait of Anna, who lives one floor below me, and her hamster.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Yarn AudioWorks
Battleship Grey
This is the story of why you should never, ever, ever paint your balcony battleship grey.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Danielle Nerman
Faded Red Valentines
College students in my dorm recount how their parents met.
- 2012
- 02:54
- Bianca Giaever
Caught Red-Handed
Someone's been smoking in my building, and I want them to stop.
- 2012
- 03:02
- Chris Berube
Black Cat in the Room
Moving in with strangers in a new city can be difficult but building a relationship with their pets can be an experience in itself, even if that pet is named after a famous actor.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Mike Williams
Ray, White, and Blue
Over ten years ago, two strangers were drawn together by a neighborhood handball court in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn.
- 2012
- 03:02
- Marisa Wong
Green Convenience Store
How one convenience store and its singing proprietor can change the atmosphere of a street.
- 2012
- 02:54
- Rosy Rickett
Neighborhood Crimes: When Black and White is Grey
Now living in a comparatively peaceful community in Fargo, ND, Ermina Jelovac from Bosnia exposes the almost overnight change in her neighbors during the war.
- 2012
- 02:49
- Brad Delzer
- Erika Lorentzsen
Meeting in a White Stairs
Just a little of my world in encounters with neighbors on the white stairs of my building that has no elevator!
- 2012
- 02:59
- Pedro Garbellini da Silva
Coloring In the Great White North
Three neighbors in Fargo, ND, talk about the rapid coloring in of a town in the Great White North.
- 2012
- 02:58
- Brad Delzer
- Erika Lorentzsen
Midnight Blues
A night like any other in an unusual life.
- 2012
- 02:39
- Chris Savell
- Justin Perleoni
Black Box
"Black Box" is a performance art piece based on a confidential survey asking both local and international participants, 'What would your metaphorical black box say?'
- 2012
- 03:00
- Pascalle Burton
Sunset Ridge Brown
One morning I looked out my front door and...oh, my, WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!?
- 2012
- 02:54
- Bill Ratner
Bye Bye Blue Bird
Strange visitors to an otherwise unremarkable strip mall on Cape Cod face eviction.
- 2012
- 02:53
- JP Davidson
The Wine-Dark Sea
Homer's Odyssey re-imagined through my neighbors' experiences on the wine-dark sea.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Whitney Jones
Fire Engine Red
This is a story about getting to know your neighbour, when your neighbour is a sound.
- 2012
- 02:34
- Veronica Simmonds
Black, White and Green
A woman makes her 'home' at a bus stop across the street from my office, this is my fantasy of what her seemingly miserable life could be the result of.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Frank Karall
Whistler in Blue (Sweater)
In a tiny village the rhythm of life is surprisingly loud, and one neighbour keeps time with his whistle.
- 2012
- 02:49
- Kevin Speck
- Ramona Stout
Roses are Red, Sandwiches Are Yellow
Neighbors of Bushwick, Brooklyn are asked, "Which do you prefer, the perfect love or the perfect sandwich?" -- vox pop-style.
- 2012
- 02:50
- Sejan Yun
Yellow Short Pants
Daily life can be tough for a foreigner living in Japan but luckily Ueko and Hitomi, my neighbors from down the road, are always on hand to offer advice....even when it involves a missing pair of yellow shorts.
- 2012
- 02:47
- Julien Clancy
False Teeth, True Love, and Blueberry Pie
My neighbor Earl has been a logger all his life; Betty, who lives up the mountain tells me those logging men are known for their sweet tooth, and Earl tells me about his sweetheart.
- 2012
- 02:59
- Emily Newton